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" ,915. Patented Feb. 2|, I899. r. w. WENTWDRTH.

TIE WIRE 0R CLASP FOR INSULATURS.

(Application filed n. 12, 1893.)

(lo Model.)

. INVENTOR Q/MM WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEICE.

FRED WV. IVENTIVORTI-I, OF PATERSON, NEIN JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE INVENTORS NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TIE-WIRE OR CLASP FOR INSULATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,915, dated February 21, 1899. Application filed Deoember12,1898. Serial No- 698,959. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: be shown. d is the securing device for said Be it known that I, FRED W. IVENTWORTH, wire. In the form of this device shown in a citizen of the United States, residing in Pat- Fig. 1 it consists of a bent wire substantially erson, county of Passaic, and State of New of the thickness of the line-wire to be sup- Jersey, have invented certain new and useful ported and curved to fit the insulator, the 5; Improvements in Tie-\Vires or Clasps for Inends of said wire being bent into the form of sulators; and I do hereby declare the followcurved hooks e and its intermediate portion ing to be a full, clear, and exact description being formed into a twist f. I of the invention, such as will enable others In the modification shown in Fig. 2 the deskilled in the art to which it appertains to vice is similar to that shown in Fig. 1, with make and use the same, reference being had the exception that instead of a twist the into the accompanying drawings, and to letters termediate portion of the bent wire is formed of reference marked thereon, which form a into a loop 9.

part of this specification. In the modifications shown in Figs. 3 and r 5 This invention relates to means for secnr- 4 the device is substantially like that shown ing a line of wire on its supports, and it has in Fig. 1, with the exception that its hooked particular reference to the application of such ends are angular, as shown at 8, instead of means to telephone, telegraph, or other linecurved, there being but one bend to form the wires. hook at each end of the device shown in Fig.

20 The object of the invention is to provide 3, and the ends of the device in Fig. 4: being such a securing means as shall be simple and rebent-that is to say, bent twice. cheap in construction and effective in oper- In the device as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the ation, and which may be readily placed in hooked ends are substantially of the forms operative engagement with or readily disenshown in Figs. 3 and 4, respectively, but the 2 5 gaged from the wire. intermediate portion is formed into a loop g The invention consists in the securing deinstead of the twist f.

vice proper, in the combination of the same In securing the line-wire a to the insulator with a specific form of insulator, to which the the hooked ends 6 or c of the clasp are hooked wire is affixed and upon which it is secured upon the said line-wire on both sides of the 30 to the pole or other support, and in the cominsulator, and afterward the curved portion bination of the wire with said device and the of the clasp is forced over the top of the ininsulator. sulator into the channel 0, which latter pre- The invention is fully illustrated in the acvents the clasp from disengaging the insulacompanying drawings, in whichtor and at the same time draws the hooked 5 Figure 1 is a perspective view of the wire, ends of the clasp into firm engagement with the insulator, and one form of the device for the line-Wire. securing said wire to the insulator. Fig. 2 is When the clasps are used in their unfina sectional View of the insulator, showing a ished forms, they are mounted upon the inslight modification of said securing device. sulator and connected with the line-wire in 0 Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are views of certain other the manner heretofore described, when after- 0 modifications of the invention. ward the ends of the clasp are bent into In said drawings, a indicates the wire to be proper shape by a suitable tool or implement. supported, and 2) represents the insulat0r,hav- By providing the clasp with the intermeing a continuous channel 0 formed in and diate loop or twist elasticity in the clasp is 5 surrounding it and adapted to receive the materially increased. 5

wire which extends around the insulator for \Vhat I claim as new is a short distance. The channelcshould have 1. A securing device for a line of wiring a width but slightly greater than that of the consisting of a bent wire having hooked ends thickness of the wire and it should be of apand a bend intermediate said ends, said wire 50 preciable depth, for a reason hereinafter to being adapted to extend around one side of a support for, and engage Withits hooked ends, said line of wiring, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a suitable support having a surrounding channel therein, a line of wiring engaging said channel on one side of said support, and a securing device consisting of a bent wire extending around the other side of said support and in said channel and having hooked ends engaging said line of wiring, and a deflection orbend inter- 1o mediate its ends, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of December, 1898.

FRED W. \VENTWORTII.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, JAMES B. NEWTON. 

